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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers. The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%.

With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home. Shui Zhou, 30, had a food business venture that failed in 2024. In April of this year, he started to pay 30 yuan ($4.20; £3.10) per day to go into a mock-up office run by a business called Pretend To Work Company, in the city of Dongguan, 114 km (71 miles) north of Hong Kong. There he joins five "colleagues" who are doing the same thing. "I feel very happy," says Mr Zhou. "It's like we're working together as a group."

 

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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers. The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%.

With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home. Shui Zhou, 30, had a food business venture that failed in 2024. In April of this year, he started to pay 30 yuan ($4.20; £3.10) per day to go into a mock-up office run by a business called Pretend To Work Company, in the city of Dongguan, 114 km (71 miles) north of Hong Kong. There he joins five "colleagues" who are doing the same thing. "I feel very happy," says Mr Zhou. "It's like we're working together as a group."

Remember when we were worried about China?

 

[Runkle]

Posting on here is what I do in the office to pretend I have a job sometimes

 

[fatness]

A 450-year-old tree is on fire. Firefighters may or may not be able to save it.

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over 325 feet (99 meters) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has been burning since Saturday in Coos County in Oregon’s Coast Range. An infrared drone flight on Tuesday showed no active flames or smoke at the top of the tree, but it detected heat within a cavity in the tree trunk some 280 feet high, federal Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Megan Harper said.

Figuring out how to approach the tree from the side to douse the cavity with water has been a challenge, Harper said. Various options have been discussed, including building scaffolding or climbing adjacent trees for better positioning, or letting it smolder and monitoring to see if it reignites.

 

[fatness]

Bear story #4

Japanese police have said that an elderly man who they had believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son. Fujiyuki Shindo, 51, was arrested in the northern Akita prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his 93-year-old father Fujiyoshi, local media reports. Police sent out a bear attack warning mail after the victim's wife found him collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But it was withdrawn after investigators concluded the wounds were more consistent with knife injuries.

So they first thought a bear stabbed him?

 

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Bear story #4

Japanese police have said that an elderly man who they had believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son. Fujiyuki Shindo, 51, was arrested in the northern Akita prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his 93-year-old father Fujiyoshi, local media reports. Police sent out a bear attack warning mail after the victim's wife found him collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But it was withdrawn after investigators concluded the wounds were more consistent with knife injuries.

So they first thought a bear stabbed him?

Maybe they thought a bear stole a knife from someone. Seems logical to me.

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Rolls-Royce Just Dropped a $1 Million Phantom in a Pool to Mark its 100th Birthday | Man of Many

The Rolls-Royce Phantom is the pinnacle in the brand's lineup, and this year, it's celebrating its 100th birthday with a pool party.

manofmany.com

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

A Freediver Held His Breath For Almost Half an Hour—and Obliterated a World Record

The attempt was only possible thanks to some pre-gaming with pure oxygen, but still eye-popping.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Magnets could guide tiny robots to deliver medicine in the body

Made with a gel side for carrying drugs and a magnetic side for steering, the microrobots can navigate complex environments like intestines.

www.futurity.org

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Covid and Our Arteries

A new study on acceleration of vascular aging adds to the body of evidence

erictopol.substack.com

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Father-son morticians turn tattoos into wall art

Save My Ink Forever gives ink a second life after death.

www.popsci.com

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

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